Back during the first Clinton presidency, James Carville used to talk about what he called, in his folksy way, The Puke Funnel. This was his way of describing how fanciful tales of Arkansas criminality would begin life as items buried in the wild kingdom of the British tabloids. This enabled American tabloids to quote the British tabloids, which would enable more respectable outfits to "cover the controversy," at which point everyone was off to the races.

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We are on the brink of another Clinton presidency, which means that The Puke Funnel is now in operation. If you ever seek the source point for this particular brand of political pollution, you can do worse than seek it out at The Daily Mail. And the spigots were wide-open again Tuesday.

On the first visit, archivist David Paynter provided the box of records that he said contained the FBI reports of interviews conducted by FBI agents on Foster's death. On a second visit, archivist James Mathis provided what he said were those same documents. While the box contained dozens of FBI reports concerning Foster's death—including interviews with the medical examiner, U.S. Park Police officers, and White House aides about the contents of Foster's office—the reports on Hillary Clinton's role in his death were absent.

And you will note that the passage quoted above has a neat little bit of business. There is no mention of the "missing" files in the description of the author's first visit and then, in the account of his second visit, we are told that the previously unmentioned files are now missing. This could just be bad writing or worse editing but, given precedents dating back to 1992, there's no reason to assume too much good faith.

Anyway, the piece goes on to quote Secret Service sources—so much for discretion—who describe how horrible Hillary Rodham Clinton's tirade was that finally drove Foster to suicide. The author thereupon ponders the question of why the newly unemployed Ken Starr (!) concealed HRC's role in these events as well.

Starr issued a 38,000-word report, along with a separate psychologist's report on the factors that contributed to Foster's suicide. Yet Starr never mentioned the meeting with Hillary, leaving out the fact that his own investigation had found that Hillary's rage had led to her friend's suicide. Why Starr chose not to reveal the critical meeting and his own investigators' findings remains a mystery. Asked why he excluded what led to Foster's suicide from his report, Starr did not respond. A spokesman for Hillary Clinton had no comment. Starr's report recounted how the FBI ran down even the most bizarre theories about Foster's death and conducted extensive ballistics tests that refuted assertions that Foster had not committed suicide.

The last line of a story, the only purpose of which seems to be to get the words "Hillary Clinton," "Vince Foster" and "suicide" into a single headline. If anybody is going to go to hell for what they did in American politics, it's going to be those ghouls who used—and, apparently, are intending to use again—Vince Foster's corpse as a bludgeon on the Clintons. His name should never pass the lips of anyone save the members of his family, ever again.